Guy on usenet built a custom Mame front-end. Website w/ Pics. Looks good.

[abbzer0]

Hello - I just wanted to share a great post that I saw on rec.games.video.arcade.collecting.  The guy did a really nice job on a Mame font-end.  Below is the original post he made:

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Hey,

After collecting for about 15 years, I finally decided do a MAME cabinet
for my 20th machine - in a restored burgertime machine for all the
classic vertical games from 1979-1985ish (which is essentially games
that are in low-res & use 1 to 2 firebuttons.  I wrote a front end
script using scala infochannel designer and its only about 200k.  I'm
trying to modularize (right now the script is very tailored to my
environment) the script & install procedure in case anyone wants to use
this for a strictly vertical mame cab @ 15khz and a 15khz solution like
the ArcadeVGA.   If anyone is interested, lmk and I'll see if I can make
a click'n'go install procedure.

It also supports avi previews of the games & a jukebox.

Details / HW setup / Requirements here:

http://matthewdesantis.homelinux.org:8080/mamecabinet/



-Matt

[abzman2000]

that is IDEAL for a possible upcoming cabinet of mine (probably in the FAR future, but still....) very nice find! 

[IG-88]

I can't get the page to load. Will it work for anybody else?

[Havok]

Works fine for me. Looks pretty standard, really the only cool thing is the small program size...

[gonzo90017]

Works for me too.

[IG-88]

I still can't get it to work. I get the "connection has timed out" message  Oh well. Is it Linux based?

[SavannahLion]

Oh well. Is it Linux based?

Interestingly no. It requires 98/XP/Vista to run.

[divemaster127]

That's not a bad looking front end
dm

[IG-88]

Could somebody DL it and email it to me? I've tried everything and it will not open. 

[Encryptor]

Could somebody DL it and email it to me? I've tried everything and it will not open. 

I was going to do it for you but I don't see a link to download it anywhere. It's just some screen shots.

Encryptor

[IG-88]

Well, if you can find it send me a PM and I'll give you my email address.

[TimmyB]

I can't get the page to load. Will it work for anybody else?

Your work probably has port 8080 blocked...

[IG-88]

Actually it's my home computer. I'm using Firefox. Would that block the 8080 portal automatically?

[SavannahLion]

Actually it's my home computer. I'm using Firefox. Would that block the 8080 portal automatically?

It shouldn't. I use FF myself. It's probably something else. Perhaps an overzealous firewall or something is blocking it. The root is registered to DynDNS, that might have something to do with it.

[Ummon]

Yeah, it's a little too specific in features, but kudos for the small size. Eliminate the 'expected' mame directory and add the ability for unlimited games and it could be a winner for many who don't want to go through the trouble of other emus and designing the GUI interface, etc.